When you first install WordPress, the opening page it displays is called the Dashboard. Unfortunately, this page is pretty useless. In fact, it’s worse than useless, since it loads a bunch of RSS feeds from some seemingly random WordPress-power blogs (which can take quite a while). My original “fix” for this page was to never use it.

Fortunately, the folks over at the Simple Thoughts blog hacked a fix for the Dashboard. The fixed Dashboard is actually useful giving you a list of your draft posts, recent posts, number of post and comments and some other stuff.

You can read all about the Dashboard hack here. Once again, I’ve updated the WordPress Customization static page (also linked to in the sidebar) to include notes on this hack.